Posted on 11/24/2013 12:14:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As a 78-year-old woman walked down the street in Brooklyn, carrying her purse and bags, a young black male, about 20 years old, punched her in the head as hard as he could and ran away. The man said nothing and didn’t steal a single item.
This is one of the latest instances of “Knockout,” a “game” of evidently increasing popularity. Young people — sometimes female but usually male, predominantly black, in their teens to early 20s, in groups or alone — approach unsuspecting strangers and punch them in the head as hard as possible with the intention to knock them unconscious with a single blow. Sometimes the aggressors will rob the victim, but usually violence itself is the purpose of the attack. Some of the attackers have even recorded videos of their exploits.
At various times and places, the “game” has been called “Knockout,” “Knockout King,” “One-Hitter-Quitter,” “Pick ’Em Out and Knock ’Em Down,” “Knock ’Em and Drop ’Em,” and “Polar-Bear Hunting” (most likely in reference to whites). The attacks are unprovoked and often happen in broad daylight.
They can be deadly.
So far, six fatalities resulting from Knockout have been documented. The first was of an MIT student in 1992, according to an Associated Press report. Yngve Raustein of Norway was approached by a group of teens who asked him what language he was speaking. They then proceeded to sucker-punch him in the face and rob him and his friend. Raustein immediately fell to the ground. When he tried to get up, the assailants stabbed him in the heart. Cambridge police at the time said that these attacks might be perpetrated by just a few kids.
The game was around before 1992, according to a St. Louis man named Askia who spoke with reporters in 2011. He described a similar game, “One-Hitter Quitter” (a name still used today), from the ’80s, when he was growing up. “We’d be out in the club or something and pick a random person and drop him to see if we could knock him out,” Askia said.
Former players have said that they did it for fun. Others speculate that the game is an attempt to demonstrate manhood and earn respect from peers.
After the murder in 1992, further reports of Knockout didn’t emerge until 2011, with the death of 72-year-old Hoan Nguyen. Nguyen, an immigrant from Vietnam, was walking down the street with his wife in St. Louis when an 18-year-old African American charged the couple, striking Hoan Nguyen directly in the face. He died later that day in the hospital. Soon after the Nguyen homicide, John H. Tucker of the Riverfront Times in St. Louis interviewed local youth who confessed to playing Knockout. The kids said it was popular, and one mother revealed that her son had played it as early as two years before the Nguyen incident. Some players were white; most were black.
Such attacks continued in St. Louis throughout that year, with ten known attacks over a 15-month period up to December 2011, including nonfatal attacks on two men, 73 and 51 years old. Reports of attacks began popping up elsewhere, including Illinois, Nevada, and Washington, D.C.
More reports of the game arose over the next two years, including two more deaths in 2012 and another two in 2013. Delfino Mora in Chicago and Colton Gleason in St. Cloud, Minn., were both fatally punched in the face. Mora, who was scavenging for recyclables before being assaulted, was found three hours after the attack on July 10 of this year. Blood was seeping from his nose. He died the next day. Gleason died in the hospital on September 21 within hours after he was attacked. Neither knew his attackers or had provoked the attack.
Two more people — Michael Daniels of Syracuse, N.Y., and Raphael Santiago of Hoboken, N.J. — were killed in May and September of 2013, respectively, in games of Knockout.
Further reports of Knockout have surfaced in the past week, including an assault in San Diego, the first reported on the West Coast. Recently, the attacks have been most prominent in Brooklyn, where eight victims, primarily white Jews, have been randomly targeted by black teens in games of, as New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly called it, “Knockout” and “Polarbearing.”
In all, incidents of “Knockout” have been reported in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, the District of Columbia, and now California. Most of the victims have been whites and Asians, and attackers tend to target Jews, immigrants, and the elderly in particular. Most of the attackers have been African American.
“This was purely a wanton incident,” said Rita, the daughter of the 78-year-old woman attacked in Brooklyn. “Someone wanted to inflict pain onto someone else, no other purpose.”
— Alec Torres is a William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute.
Hmmm, the opposite of polar bear hunting...
This is different. This is the fruit of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan -- all the people who have been telling black people for DECADES that the reason why they live such crappy lives, is because "The White Man be keepin' you DOWN".
So the black teens look at their lives, see they are going nowhere, and it's all the collective fault of white people.
The knockout "game" is not rowdy youth -- it is angry blacks seeking retribution against the whole of the white race.
In your local rag this would have been reported as a simple assault (story from 2012):
Ethical questions are being raised both inside The Virginian-Pilot and in the Norfolk, Va. area after two of the paper’s reporters were attacked and beaten by a mob of at least 30 blacks, but was downplayed by police and withheld from the public for more than two weeks by the newspaper’s editors.
Reporters Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami were leaving a concert on the night of April 14 when a crowd of around 100 young people gathered on the sidewalk near their car. Rostami reached over to lock the door.
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According to a police report obtained by Fox News, a black male hurled a rock at the car. Forster got out and tried to confront the individual who damaged his car. Instead, a gang of attackers began punching and pound the reporter. Police would not confirm the exact number — but at least one account put the number at 30.
Rostami tried to pull him back inside the car, but others in the crowd began attack her, the police report stated. She was beaten a half dozen times by an unidentified black man.
The quintessentially-wrong Wright. The “God damn America” preacher. Well he certainly managed to get a lot of black America cursed that way. Kind of makes all other spiritual intrigue (Masons, etc.) pale.
Yes, the juicy details would be missing.
“Some players were white; most were black.”
No, I think they’re all black.
Are we censoring our lead in titles?
After Zimmerman, forget the cops and court. If I have to fire, I'm getting out of dodge and then keeping my trap shut.
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/reporters-beaten-by-mob-of-blacks-and-their-newspaper-stayed-silent.html
Ethical questions are being raised both inside The Virginian-Pilot and in the Norfolk, Va. area after two of the paper’s reporters were attacked and beaten by a mob of at least 30 blacks, but was downplayed by police and withheld from the public for more than two weeks by the newspaper’s editors.
Reporters Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami were leaving a concert on the night of April 14 when a crowd of around 100 young people gathered on the sidewalk near their car. Rostami reached over to lock the door.
According to a police report obtained by Fox News, a black male hurled a rock at the car. Forster got out and tried to confront the individual who damaged his car. Instead, a gang of attackers began punching and pound the reporter. Police would not confirm the exact number — but at least one account put the number at 30.
Rostami tried to pull him back inside the car, but others in the crowd began attack her, the police report stated. She was beaten a half dozen times by an unidentified black man.
It was around in the 90s in NYC, only the blacks doing it were then calling it “Herbing.” The “Herb” being a white, senior male...preferably wearing glasses.
Juicy details? The truth.
If whites were randomly attacking blacks in the same fashion the ‘juicy details’ would have been on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
You know that HiTech.
SOBs
(Sons of ‘Bama)
If one white, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American did this the New York Times would run it on the front page above the fold as an ‘equivalency’... And every suck up paper in the country would follow their lead.
Thanks for sharing Roccus.
This is a purely sociopathic act. All humanity would have to scream.
> Young people — sometimes female but usually male, predominantly black, in their teens to early 20s, in groups or alone — approach unsuspecting strangers and punch them in the head as hard as possible with the intention to knock them unconscious with a single blow.
Predominantly black?!
Why can’t the MSM tell the truth and just say ALL black. I haven’t read or heard about any knockout games where the perps weren’t black.
If the poor 78-year-old woman had defended herself and shot back at him, his mother and her friends would have been out on the streets, holding hands, and swaying while singing "we shall overcome". Never would it cross her mind that she had utterly failed as a parent and should actually hide from the public in shame at how her son has turned out. Beating an elderly woman, is what a coward, fool, and wicked individual would do. Especially doing it for bragging rights.
Even worse are the fools who march to protest when such behavior has consequences.
Oprah "Old white folks just have to die" Winfrey plans a spectacular event to honor African-American Knockout Game legends.
The legends will be a mystery seated randomly in the audience of mostly white folks.
"It's a surprise. Audience members will be floored when they find out who among them is actually a guest of the show to be honored," quipped one of Ms Winfrey's trusted aids smiling broadly.
/sarc
I had to put my hand on my revolver once. I didn’t have to pull it but the act did not go unnoticed by the the three thugs that were preparing to rob me as I pumped gas into my truck. One looked at another and shook his head and they all slunk back into the shadows, including the one standing in the middle of the road acting as a lookout. This was wise on their part as the plan I was preparing to execute involved gasoline and muzzle flash.
By the time you think you need to cross the street, the predators have already ID’ed you and figured out counters to any effort at evasion. You are the gazelle and they are the hyenas.
If you have to cross, use that time wisely by drawing your weapon, taking it off safe, putting a round in the chamber, knowing you are now dealing in quarter to half-second intervals. You should be thinking in terms of target analysis, first salvo being one each to attackers, followed by second shot at misses and those not slowed down by the first round.
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